“Wow! Thanks for clearing that up. Now I know all those tapes by Osama Bin Laden were phony.”

Take it easy there. I think that what Mike Sylwester meant is that al Qaeda didn’t issue a big press release after 9-11 triumphantly proclaiming “we did it!” in the manner of the IRA or Red Brigades or PLO.

The first tape we found I think where bin Laden said he did it was found by our forces in Afghanistan and was one that they accidentally left behind.

As I recall they’ve admitted to it in other messages but all some time after the fact. That was the point.